Sentences with phrase «heuristics for»

People will not necessarily loose faith in scientist X who says that Y will happen, or won't happen based on actual events because people have heuristics for discounting disconfirming evidence.

Recently, both Richardson and Placier (in press) and Cochran - Smith & Lytle (in press) have provided useful heuristics for understanding the essence of teaching teachers.

Five research - based heuristics for using video in preservice teacher education.

In their Ministry of Education document The Singapore Model Method for Learning Mathematics they define a set of Heuristics for Problem Solving that I think offer a starting point for categorising the various skills we use to solve problems:

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

For every motivation strategy, there is a list of heuristics for improving quality.

She is Co-founder of OpenEth.org, an «ethical explication engine» that aims to crowdsource ethical heuristics for autonomous systems.

Scalable metagenomics alignment research tool (SMART): a scalable, rapid, and complete search heuristic for the classification of metagenomic sequences from complex sequence populations — Aaron Y Lee — BMC Bioinformatics — 2016

The RAND heuristic for thinking about the complex and interrelated elements of reading comprehension.

As for «overlapping error bars», this is a reasonable heuristic for this level of conversation — better CALCULATIONS can be found in Santer et al, 2008 (see how annoying that is?).

Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability.

Slovic, P., Finucane, M., Peters, E. & MacGregor, D. G. Rational actors or rational fools: Implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics.

They neglect the fact that thermodynamics is the valid macroscopic heuristic for statistical mechanics, and that stat mech computations can not be done on an heuristic basis at all; they are horrendously difficult, involving taking limits of nearly infinite sums in just the right way to get the relevant part of the answer and discard the parts that don't scale up to relevance as one goes to large systems.

The equation is no more than a qualitative heuristic for how to think about elements entering into tree ring widths or densities.

Occam's Razor is therefore an essential heuristic for helping us decide which are most likely to be meaningful and which have been offered merely as «saving hypotheses.»

But the fact that it's wise of a reader to read it all, or that it makes a good heuristic for book writing to imagine such a wise reader, shouldn't be confused with how readers really behave, especially legal readers in a hurry.

Freelance film critic Ben Kenigsberg said, «They're a useful shorthand or heuristic for readers, but I think they're kind of a tongue - in - cheek way of looking at movies, and I think they should be taken as such.»

Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability.

Not exact matches

The SaaS (software as a service) side of the business uses technologies like machine learning, Big Data analytics, heuristics, and cognitive science for optimisation of route, vehicle, space use and cost.

Nonetheless, the theory provides a useful heuristic framework for analysing the response of the Australian economy to the terms of trade boom.

The 20 % carry heuristic has been around for a long time.

This concept was originally extremely useful for heuristic purposes and has made possible a great many individual analytical investigations, but it now threatens to degenerate into a mere slogan which conceals more than it is able to illuminate, and therefore itself requires analysis.

In this essay, theologian Sallie McFague, author of the influential Models of God: Theology for an Ecological Nuclear Age, engages in what she calls heuristic theology.

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

Heuristic theology, though not bound to the images and concepts in scripture, is constrained to show that its proposed models are an appropriate, persuasive expression of Christian faith for our time.

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselveHeuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselveheuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

Therefore, a heuristic, metaphorical theology, though hospitable initially to nonsense, is constrained as well to search for sense.

In summary, the theology I am proposing is a kind of heuristic construction that in focusing on the imaginative construal of the God - world relationship, attempts to remythologize Christian faith through metaphors and models appropriate for our time.

However, while it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected published models.

(3) The old way of stating the principle that the internal coherence of Scripture should be a heuristic maxim for interpreters was to require that the analogy of Scripture be observed.

’15 This decision is not a declaration that the programme is true; it is a methodological device, a useful strategy for systematically developing the «positive heuristic» without too many distractions.

For Thornton, this heuristic innovation in fact holds true of Greek culture across the board:

A «model» in this sense is a heuristic device, an instrument for the redescription of reality, which breaks up an inadequate interpretation of the world and opens the way to a new, more adequate, interpretation.

Finally, it is facile for philosophers to invoke common sense, a heuristic which informs us that the earth is flat, the sun orbits the earth, and other such now - discredited notions.

Aristotilean categories can become a heuristic device for understanding the process of sermon performance.

Evangelicals have borrowed tools for heuristic purposes and made the beginnings of a theological synthesis from storehouses other than the ones used by scholastic evangelicalism — Baconianism, Ramism, Scottish common sense realism.

The parable for them was a heuristic device (not their language!)

The German theologian F. W. Marquardt suggests that whatever other value Marxist thought may have, for the theologian who works in a capitalist milieu it provides an indispensable heuristic device with which to expose her or his unreflective «bourgeois» assumptions.

For the reductionist can always argue that, while it may be good heuristics to develop concepts peculiarly fitted to each of the rungs (if they are not already available in ordinary language), these will be necessarily anthropomorphic and their sole function in the scientific enterprise is to invite reduction.

There are exactly parallel views of scientific models that have been held by many contemporary philosophers of science, namely, that models are purely subjective, psychological, and adopted by individuals for private heuristic purposes.

Still, Hoffman suggested that the «exit, voice and loyalty» model might still be a good heuristic device for tackling the messy terrain of migration and politics.

In short, we use all kinds of heuristics on a daily basis and apparently we do so for a good reason.

The «satisficing heuristic», meanwhile, tells you to pick the first option that meets or exceeds your expectations, when delaying a choice for too long is not in your interests.

The «recognition heuristic», for example, will direct you to choose a familiar option where there is very little information to go on.

In such cases it is rational to be inconsistent, and heuristics can be adapted to allow for that.

This heuristic training approach holds considerable promise for addressing one of the biggest challenges for neural networks: making correct classifications of previously unknown or unlabeled data.

They are then looking for shopping heuristics that would save them mental energy — anything that makes their decisions easier.

Thus, it makes perfect sense for people to use expert consensus as a decision - heuristic to guide their beliefs and behavior.

Dr. Parsons embraced a heuristic framework for the etiology of addiction that follows a trajectory from intermittent drug use motivated by hedonic effects to more frequent episodes of excessive drug intake that ultimately lead to a state of dependence, in which drug consumption is motivated by negative reinforcement (i.e., self - medication or the «staving off» of the negative consequences of withdrawal).

Traditional signature and heuristic file scanning engines form the backbone of Symantec's security solutions; these engines use dozens of techniques to scan files for both known as well as unknown threats.